You can know every word in a sentence and still miss what it means — because English hides so much of its meaning in idioms and phrasal verbs. "Hit the sack" has nothing to do with a sack, and "give up" is not about giving. This category teaches the expressions that separate a textbook learner from a natural speaker, in three steps: the common idioms you will hear every day, the phrasal verbs that carry ordinary conversation, and the more advanced sayings that make your English sound effortless. Every card gives the plain meaning and a natural example sentence, so you learn each expression the way you would actually use it.
Start here: the everyday idioms native speakers drop into conversation all the time.
Level up to the two-word verbs — give up, look after, run into — that spoken English runs on.
Finish with the sophisticated idioms that make your English sound natural and fluent.